Nicolle
Nicolle was given to 65 girls in 2025, #2,678 among girls’ names; 6,077 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,860 Americans named Nicolle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 26 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nicolle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nicolle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nicolle is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nicolle?
#2,678 among girls’ names, 2025
Nicolle rose from #2,991 in 2015 to #2,678 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 32.5 to 40.4 per million.
216 babies in 1970, the peak
Nicolle peaked in 1970, when 216 girls were given it, #713 among girls’ names. The 65 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,678 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 54 | #3,040 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,079 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,636 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,783 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,892 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,895 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,777 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,535 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 56 | #3,002 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,991 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,404 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,894 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,096 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,588 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,937 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,604 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 71 | #2,622 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,913 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,164 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,542 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 74 | #2,335 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 82 | #2,136 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 77 | #2,169 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 92 | #1,893 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 115 | #1,553 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 91 | #1,762 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 103 | #1,591 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 117 | #1,423 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 112 | #1,472 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 107 | #1,487 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 162 | #1,109 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 131 | #1,293 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 166 | #1,086 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 142 | #1,213 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 150 | #1,148 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 137 | #1,189 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 137 | #1,123 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 148 | #1,048 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 133 | #1,112 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 144 | #1,042 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 119 | #1,149 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 127 | #1,087 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 128 | #1,105 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 127 | #1,099 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 136 | #1,052 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 162 | #918 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 152 | #934 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 156 | #910 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 148 | #896 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 156 | #862 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 106 | #1,100 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 115 | #1,021 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 190 | #737 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 170 | #820 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 216 | #713 | 0.12 |
| 1969 | 161 | #812 | 0.10 |
| 1968 | 87 | #1,163 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 44 | #1,743 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,689 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,222 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,342 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,581 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,691 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,767 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nicolle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nicolle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nicolle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nicolle, and how old are they?
5,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 6,077 Americans ever recorded as Nicolle. The median Nicolle alive today is 38 years old; half are between 26 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 5,984 people named Nicolle (5,966 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,634 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 36 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,920 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,110 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 631 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Nicolle born?
The states with the most babies named Nicolle are California, New York and Florida, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 903 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 574 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 401 | #1,043 | 1.5× |
| Minnesota | 249 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| New Jersey | 240 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 237 | #1,687 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 230 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 192 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 155 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 152 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Nicolle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nicolle is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1957 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nicolle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Nicolle?
Nicolle is a less common spelling of Nicole: SSA has recorded 6,077 Nicolle and 596,465 Nicole since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 622,598 babies since 1880, Nicolle is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 65 of their 926 babies (7.0%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nicolle
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nicolle and names like it
- Compare Nicolle and NicoleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNicolle peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nicolle since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Nicolle.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nicolle alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.